Word: prod
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...those who "prod" cannot be quite immune...
Hidden Actors. Chinese and American officers peer through their glasses and telescopes at the forward slopes. They can see nothing. The infantry is deep in the underbrush, bellying its way up over the rocks and ledges. The American officers prod the Chinese general. He assures them that his regiments are moving...
Southerners generally resent any Federal infringement on their State-right to solve their own problems: they have also been prone to leave those problems unsolved. Last week an extraordinary meeting took place in Atlanta, Ga. Its purpose: to prod Southerners into airing some of their dirty linen before the Federal Government steps in and washes it for them...
Donald Nelson, the man who put the prod in production...
...years Government officials have lectured the railroads on the subject of debt, have rarely missed a chance to prod them toward faster bond retirement. Last week came the long-suffering railroads' turn. In a tax-plan letter to Congressman Daniel A. Reed (R., N.Y.), the Association of American Railroads politely proposed that Government retire 1% of its debt per year. In this way, suggested the association-whose members have cut their debt $1.4 billion in four years-the expected $300 billion postwar debt can be liquidated in 100 years...